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By Ju-min Park TOKYO (Reuters) - A Russian archer fainted in the Tokyo heat during a qualifying Olympic round on Friday as a heatwave pushed coaches and staff to huddle under trees for shade. Svetlana...

By Karolos Grohmann TOKYO (Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will be forced to watch as Russian athletes don uniforms in their country's colours of red, white and blue and compete at the ...

By Paresh Dave FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Mexico's Olympic baseball team will be without former Major League Baseball pitchers Hector Velazquez and Sammy Solis for the Tokyo Games after they tested ...

By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Japan's Naomi Osaka will return to the spotlight on Saturday, kicking off her Olympic campaign in the first match on Centre Court as a home crowd favourite a...

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese men's gymnastics team have won either gold or silver at every Olympics since Athens in 2004 and while the current squad lack the experience of their prede...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympics organisers said on Friday that three more competitors at the Tokyo Games, including one resident of the athletes' village, had tested positive for COVID-19. Olympics-related...

(Reuters) - Focus on tennis at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * There are five events in total - singles and doubles tournaments for both men and women, and a mixed doubles competition. ...

By Philip O'Connor TOKYO (Reuters) - Surfing's proud Olympic debut on Sunday will be the result of a decades-long struggle for acceptance by the sport's governing body, but its president Fernando Ague...

(Reuters) - Five tennis players to watch out for at the Tokyo Olympics: NAOMI OSAKA (JAPAN) Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka is widely considered a favourite for gold as she makes her...

By Richa Naidu TOKYO - Tokyo's Musashino Forest Sport Plaza is a familiar venue for India's P.V. Sindhu - it's where she made it to the quarter-finals of the 2019 Japan Open, dancing to the deafening ...